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COVID-19 Cases Continue to Decline Across the US

The daily COVID-19 case rate is decreasing in every state except Maine after a peak that hit mid-January, due to the highly contagious Omicron variant. In other good news, the number of Americans hospitalized due to COVID-19 has declined by…

Medicare Will Now Pay for At-Home Rapid COVID-19 Tests

When the federal government announced that private health insurers would cover the cost of up to eight at-home rapid COVID-19 tests per month for their policyholders on January 15, Medicare was not included—leaving millions of Americans out…

COVID-19 Testing: Must Employers Cover the Cost?

On January 13, the Supreme Court struck down the federal government’s requirement that companies with more than 100 employees either mandate COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing. However, businesses may still want to test employees as a…

Gut Bacteria Linked to Long COVID-19 Illness

A study found that those with long COVID-19 illness (symptoms lasting more than 30 days post-infection) had lower levels of immunity-enhancing gut bacteria, such as Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, Roseburia…

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